Slavery and Silence : : Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate / / Paul D. Naish.
In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, it became increasingly difficult for Americans outside the world of politics to have frank and open discussions about the institution of slavery, as divisive sectionalism and heated ideological rhetoric circumscribed public debate. To talk about slavery...
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Naish, Paul D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Slavery and Silence : Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate / Paul D. Naish. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020] ©2017 1 online resource (304 p.) : 10 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface. Creatures of Silence -- Introduction. Surrounded by Mirrors -- Chapter 1. Never So Drunk with New-Born Liberty -- Chapter 2. "Our" Aborigines -- Chapter 3. The Problem of Slavery -- Chapter 4. Conquest and Reconquest -- Chapter 5. An Even More Peculiar Institution -- Epilogue. 1861 and After -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, it became increasingly difficult for Americans outside the world of politics to have frank and open discussions about the institution of slavery, as divisive sectionalism and heated ideological rhetoric circumscribed public debate. To talk about slavery was to explore-or deny-its obvious shortcomings, its inhumanity, its contradictions. To celebrate it required explaining away the nation's proclaimed belief in equality and its public promise of rights for all, while to condemn it was to insult people who might be related by ties of blood, friendship, or business, and perhaps even to threaten the very economy and political stability of the nation.For this reason, Paul D. Naish argues, Americans displaced their most provocative criticisms and darkest fears about the institution onto Latin America. Naish bolsters this seemingly counterintuitive argument with a compelling focus on realms of public expression that have drawn sparse attention in previous scholarship on this era. In novels, diaries, correspondence, and scientific writings, he contends, the heat and bluster of the political arena was muted, and discussions of slavery staged in these venues often turned their attention south of the Rio Grande.At once familiar and foreign, Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, and the independent republics of Spanish America provided rhetorical landscapes about which everyday citizens could speak, through both outright comparisons or implicit metaphors, what might otherwise be unsayable when talking about slavery at home. At a time of ominous sectional fracture, Americans of many persuasions-Northerners and Southerners, Whigs and Democrats, scholars secure in their libraries and settlers vulnerable on the Mexican frontier-found unity in their disparagement of Latin America. This displacement of anxiety helped create a superficial feeling of nationalism as the country careened toward disunity of the most violent, politically charged, and consequential sort. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020) Conversation Political aspects United States History 19th century. Political culture United States History 19th century. Racism Political aspects United States History 19th century. Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century. Slavery Latin America History 19th century. Whites United States Attitudes History 19th century. American History. American Studies. Caribbean Studies. Latin American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 9783110550306 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294309 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294309 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812294309.jpg |
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